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Announcing Web Directions East

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• By:John
• August 25, 2008
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In 2007 Web Directions headed off­shore to Vancouver for our first Web Directions North. Now, we are really excited to announce Web Directions East, to be held in Tokyo, Japan in November of this year, in con­junc­tion with lead­ing local web design and train­ing com­pa­nies Actlink and all­Web.

For our first Japanese event, Web Directions East will be a one day, two track con­fer­ence, and two days of workshops.

One track will fea­ture inter­na­tional speak­ers, pre­sent­ing in English, and simul­ta­ne­ously trans­lated into Japanese. The other track will fea­ture Japanese pre­sen­ters, pre­sent­ing in Japanese.

We are also really excited with our lineup of won­der­ful inter­na­tional speak­ers, fea­tur­ing

• The god­fa­ther of CSS Eric Meyer
• Ajax wiz­ard Jeremy Keith
• Markup leg­end Dan “sim­plebits” Cederholm
• Guru of all things web Andy Budd
• W3C SVG and Canvas expert Doug Schepers
• Jeffrey Veen — web legend

Workshops, deliv­ered in English, but with simul­ta­ne­ous trans­la­tion into Japanese, include

• Eric Meyer on CSS
• Jeremy Keith on Ajax
• Andy Budd on Guerilla User Testing

So, if you are keen on a trip to Japan in November, or know folks there and else­where who might be inter­ested, please let them know, or visit the site your­self (right now it’s all in Japanese).

I par­tic­u­larly like the “speaker streams” they’ve put together for each of the speak­ers — fea­tur­ing twit­ter posts, blog posts, flickr pho­tos, video, and other related news puled in from around the web.

We are really excited to be tak­ing Web Directions to Japan. Stay tuned for more news on this and other such events.

4 responses to “Announcing Web Directions East”:

1. • By:Dmitry Baranovskiy
   • August 27th, 2008
   

   This is awe­some news, John. I am so happy for Web Directions. It is a huge step, I mean across the lan­guage barrier.

2. • By:Gary Barber
   • August 30th, 2008
   

   con­grats on this John, its a major step for you guys, tak­ing Web Directions not just across the world, but across lan­guage and cul­tural boundaries.

3. • By:john Allsopp
   • August 30th, 2008
   

   Thanks so much Dmitry and Gary,

   Really excit­ing — and it has been a HUGE learn­ing expe­ri­ence. My first big take away, in terms of local­iza­tion, trans­la­tion is only a triv­ial part of the equation.

   john

4. • By:M@Blog - by Matthew Romaine » Web Directions East 2008
   • September 11th, 2008

   […] Directions East 2008 Web Directions East is com­ing to Tokyo! November 7^th to 9^th. English announce­ment Official Japanese site If you’re liv­ing in Tokyo and devel­op­ing for the Internet, you […]

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